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Definition of Nonchalance
1. Noun. The trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern.
Generic synonyms: Carefreeness
Derivative terms: Indifferent, Nonchalant
Definition of Nonchalance
1. n. Indifference; carelessness; coolness.
Definition of Nonchalance
1. Noun. indifference; carelessness; coolness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonchalance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonchalance
Literary usage of Nonchalance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1895)
"[ With nonchalance. ] No occasion for alarm. He was not in the cast. He had a
box—by himself. The misery of it ! He left after the first act. Rachel. ..."
2. The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored by Georg August Schweinfurth, Ellen Elizabeth Frewer (1874)
"... nonchalance. A specimen of native cookery. Six Nubians murdered by Niam-niam.
The leaf-eater and grass-man. ONE of the native chieftains, ..."
3. Sayings and Doings: Or, Sketches from Life. Second Series by Theodore Edward Hook (1825)
"... and maintains his ground with perfect nonchalance, while his suffering rival (as,
perhaps, he only fancies himself,) is compelled by some untoward ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1847)
"Cunningham, Bickersteth, and Charles Bridges, whose houses, gardens, and families
he describes with great minuteness and nonchalance ; but perhaps chapter ..."
5. The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia by Kellogg Durland (1908)
"... to time—Muzhik nonchalance—Strange sects— Muzhik religion—A characteristic
legend—Practical ethics—The muzhik not necessarily lazy—Muzhik shrewdness—The ..."
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